[R] Rcmdr installation under Unbuntu installatiion errors

[stephen sefick]

for the build dependencies

sudo apt-get build-dep whatever

whatever=r-base etc.
hth,

Stephen Sefick

On Tue, Jul 6, 2010 at 3:44 PM, John Fox <jfox at mcmaster.ca> wrote:
> Dear John,
>
> I see that you already got an answer suggesting that you install the Ubuntu Rcmdr package, or install the tools required to build R packages from source. If the packages shown below are the only ones that failed to install, then you're probably OK. Most are dependencies of dependencies. An exception is the rgl package, which is needed for 3D scatterplots.
>
> I hope this helps,
>  John
>
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> John Fox
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>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: r-help-bounces at r-project.org [mailto:r-help-bounces at r-project.org] On
>> Behalf Of John Sorkin
>> Sent: July-06-10 12:30 PM
>> To: r-help at r-project.org
>> Subject: [R] Rcmdr installation under Unbuntu installatiion errors
>>
>> Unbuntu 10.04
>> R 2.10
>>
>> I am trying to install Rcmdr and receive the following messages:
>>
>> The downloaded packages are in
>>     ‘/tmp/RtmpzhjDZG/downloaded_packages’
>> Warning messages:
>> 1: In install.packages("Rcmdr", dependencies = TRUE) :
>>   installation of package 'Rmpi' had non-zero exit status
>> 2: In install.packages("Rcmdr", dependencies = TRUE) :
>>   installation of package 'rpvm' had non-zero exit status
>> 3: In install.packages("Rcmdr", dependencies = TRUE) :
>>   installation of package 'rsprng' had non-zero exit status
>> 4: In install.packages("Rcmdr", dependencies = TRUE) :
>>   installation of package 'tkrplot' had non-zero exit status
>> 5: In install.packages("Rcmdr", dependencies = TRUE) :
>>   installation of package 'rgl' had non-zero exit status
>> 6: In install.packages("Rcmdr", dependencies = TRUE) :
>>   installation of package 'RODBC' had non-zero exit status
>> 7: In install.packages("Rcmdr", dependencies = TRUE) :
>>   installation of package 'shapes' had non-zero exit status
>> 8: In install.packages("Rcmdr", dependencies = TRUE) :
>>   installation of package 'latentnet' had non-zero exit status
>> 9: In install.packages("Rcmdr", dependencies = TRUE) :
>>   installation of package 'VIM' had non-zero exit status
>> 10: In install.packages("Rcmdr", dependencies = TRUE) :
>>   installation of package 'statnet' had non-zero exit status
>>
>> Do I need to be concerned? Do I need to take any action?
>>
>> Thank you,
>> John
>>
>>
>> John Sorkin M.D., Ph.D.
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